Blue Screen error message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Further info....when I went into the setup mode   F2 and disabled the wireless capabilities, the laptop runs fine. Tried to use system restore and then went back and enabled wireless with blue screen appearing again. I am not a well versed user but it would appear that the linksys router reconfigured the intergrated wireless card. Dell techsupport wants me to spend top $ to solve this problem.Linsys tech support says that Dell should solve the problem. Any hightech folks out there have any ideas? thanks and Merry Christmas!!!!!

Well routers themselves cannot high jack your computer and configure stuff, unless you click on something that may something like "configure my network connection", it will then configure a wireless connection with WEP key or whatever it needs.

 

Here are the basics. Wireless should work out of the box without any configuration (with your internal network, you will need to configure any settings to get it to work with your ISP) which means it will give out IP addresses, and allow wireless connections without any configuration on your end, out of the box.

 

IRQ errors are usually driver related, and since 9x have usually gone away.

 

What steps did you take after you setup your wireless router to get your wireless nic to work with it?

Also did you configure your router to broadcast, and do you have a WEP key set on your router.

 

First things though, I would try reloading the drivers for both your wireless and your ethernet NIC